I have just had this weekend what I can only describe as a unique experience, that being attendance at the first Second Life International Best Practices in Education Conference. Held over a 24 hour period the conference was a meticulously planned and extremely well run event. Not only were there overflow locations to handle the huge number of people attending and Skype backup for the majority of presentations but SLCN TV broadcasts for all keynotes plus the more popular events, even down to the narration and broadcast of one event that was text-based.
As they become available I'll supply links to the audio broadcasts and slide presentations but in the interim here are a number of links to interesting observations on a number of individual presentations, from the MUVE Forward blog.
Keynote Speaker: Ken Hudson (Kenny Hubble-SL): Ken Hudson is the e-Learning Facilitator at Loyalist College, Belleville, Canada.
Validating & Recognizing Skills by Chris Swaine (Chris Eggplant-SL): Chris works for the National Institute for Adult Continuing Education in the UK.
Keynote Speaker: Sarah Robbins (Intellagirl ully-SL): A PhD student in Rhetoric and Composition at Ball State University.
An Observational Survey of Educational Institutions in the Virtual World of Second Life by Chris Collins (Fleep Tuque). Chris is from the University of Cincinatti.
Not quite my own thoughts on the subject but so closely aligned it seemed a waste of space to reiterate them in my words.
Look out for further comments, links to audio etc.
Regards
Aaron/Isa Goodman
Isa's SL Blog